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zulu_nation8
China26351 Posts
dxdiag Lenovo E880779B (laptop) XP 5.1 Gemini I/II Celeron 1.50GHZ 478MB Ram What's the best thing I can do to get this thing running faster and I have a SiS M661MX 32MB graphic card which I assume is on the motherboard, do I have slots to add a new graphic card? And how do I check, many thanks    | ||
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mayap
United States185 Posts
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Texas
Germany2388 Posts
graphic card is extremely crappy, does wc3 run on this pc? | ||
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oneofthem
Cayman Islands24199 Posts
and it is a laptop, everything not harddrive and memory should be set in stone. dont think about upgrading stuff. | ||
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zulu_nation8
China26351 Posts
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chiflutz
Romania1025 Posts
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Info/AIDA.shtml Tells you a bunch more stuff than dxdiag (altho dxdiag's report feature is quite good, just that aida presents things in a more organised fashion). Next, your graphics card is using something that would be called HyperMemory nowadays, for marketing purposes, which means it shares RAM with the system, and effectively has no dedicated memory of its own. Personally, I think anything beyond adding more RAM, a system tune-up and/or OS reinstall is overkill. You're better off buying a new computer since, even if you have an AGP slot (never heard of Gemini, but laptops aren't my specialty), it's gonna cost a bunch to have a new graphics card installed. If you plan on keeping it, check with Aida for available DIMM/PCI/AGP slots. Getting another 512 megs of RAM will probably boost its life expectancy considerably (tho not *that* much). Hope this helps. | ||
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jtan
Sweden5891 Posts
Switching to some linux OS speeds it up too, but since you have a pretty good machine I guess you want to play some games on it. | ||
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vstar
Korea (South)693 Posts
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Jonoman92
United States9104 Posts
On September 25 2007 07:26 zulu_nation8 wrote: should be the norton I think, oh well at least I can add memory, with the same graphic card I can forget about playing anything made after 2004 SC was made in 1998..... so you're fine. | ||
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oneofthem
Cayman Islands24199 Posts
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Lycaeus
United States1420 Posts
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BluzMan
Russian Federation4235 Posts
Another nice option will be to downgrade Windows but I have rarely tried it and older versions will require some skill to set up. | ||
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backdrOp
United States104 Posts
Windows XP Pro, not Home Edition Use Ad-Aware, Spybot : adware/spyware removal Regseeker, CCleaner : fix registry problems and a Defragmenter (I've used Ultimate Defrag, Diskeeper, currently using Perfect Disk) XP pro because it uses the least amount of resources Defrag so programs start up efficiently also: one of the major things is having an anti-virus program. if you have those programs that actively search for viruses, these slow down your computer a lot, esp. if it's an old one. you don't have to worry about viruses unless you misclick a lot, or someone is motivated to get at you. for me these are rare, so i don't bother with them. at the most i use AVG everyone once in a while, or when i open something that i suspect is a virus. hope this helps if anyone knows anything helpful, i'm curious as well | ||
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haduken
Australia8267 Posts
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CharlieMurphy
United States22895 Posts
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zulu_nation8
China26351 Posts
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